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LEBRECHT v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION

No. 35, Docket 32098.

402 F.2d 585 (1968)

George LEBRECHT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided October 29, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Heller, New York City (Reid, Devlin, Grubbs & Jackness, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Benjamin H. Siff, New York City (Howard Wachtel, Hicksville, N. Y., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SMITH, KAUFMAN and HAYS, Circuit Judges.

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

This is a diversity action for personal injuries suffered as a result of a construction accident at the 1964-65 World's Fair at Flushing Meadows, New York. The plaintiff, George Lebrecht, was installing Otis elevators in the unfinished observation tower of the New York State Pavilion when he stepped on an unsecured piece of corrugated steel decking called "slabform" and fell twenty feet to the level below. As a result of the accident...

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